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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6), volume 2

Note 401 — BOOK I[361]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Étienne Duc Pasquier (1767-1862), appointed Prefect of Police in 1810. After holding various ministerial offices under the Restoration, he was made President of the Chamber of Peers by Louis-Philippe in 1830, Chancellor in 1837, and a duke in 1844. Elected to the French Academy in 1842.—T.

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